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Wednesday, November 1. 1989 / University Daily Kansan
The last of the Indian arrowhead makers will show his arrowheads and fine silver and gemstone jewelry on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, Nov. 4th & 5th at the Harmonic Circle Gallery.
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Stephen Smith says that spending time with his 7-year-old son, Ben, takes priority over his desire to earn a college degree.
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"The paradox about school is that by becoming involved in classes, that also diminishes the possibility of spontaneously developing or pursuing a non-required course of study. But there are consequences and compromises."
One thing Smith won't compromise, though, is his time with his family. He spends time with his wife and two children, Ben, 7, and Michelle, 2, before attempting his homework.
"We try to boundary our time with our children so that we can support our children's experience as opposed to being kind of fragmented and trying to do several things at once," Smith said. "I really try not to ask my son to understand wy I can't be with him so I can write a paper. I try to be with him and then I stay up late and I write the paper."
Janine Smith said she was attracted to her husband of 12 years in high school because he was different
saw a brightness in him. I'm impressed with what he does, trying to be a dad, a husband and go to school. It's made him more focused."
"I don't mean that in a bad sense," she said. "I
Beyond family and school, Smith's focus also is diffused to his job as assistant broadcast engineer at KANU, his volunteering as a reader for the Audio-Reader Network, his love of computers and his boundless, almost childlike curiosity. He said he had aspirations of lifelong education.
"I sincerely wonder if there's any such thing as an adult, in the popular sense, where we are done growing," Smith said. "We have a need for support in our lives, which to me means a boundary in our experience where we have a beginning, a middle and an end to the process as we go through. All I can do is speak for myself and when I speak about being young at heart or age 2 going on 35 or whatever, really what I'm saying is, I'm just not done living yet."
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Smith, an electrical engineering major, attends Introduction to Digital Logic.